I have been interested in having a mobile telepresence robot at home but I can't imagine it would be able to adequately navigate around furniture, pets, people, etc. So instead I decided to build an overhead, track-mounted robot, the ERAD (elevated robotic assistive device). There's much less congestion on the ceiling....
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/index.php/robots/show/overhead-track-mounted-telepresence-assistive-robots-1